4/7/2024 0 Comments List of elder futhark runesAnother possibility is that either the English or the Norse started calling their runes by names, and the other learned it from them. Since feoh and fé both mean the same thing, it’s believed that the common ancestor of these two words was the original name of the rune. How do we know it’s called that then? Centuries after the runes were first used to write, long after the Germanic languages had split up into their many descendant languages, speakers of both Old English and Old West Norse (Icelandic and Norwegian, which had only recently split from each other and were still nearly the same language) wrote down the names of that rune in their own respective languages, which are feoh in Old English, and fé in Old West Norse. I think that most people who work with runes nowadays would probably identify as “fehu.” That isn’t wrong, but the word “fehu” was never actually written anywhere in ancient times as far as we can tell. For example, the first rune in all of the fuþarks is (or a similar-looking variant), which makes an /f/-sound in writing, and while its name varies from language to language, it always begins with an /f/-sound. Intro: About the Rune NamesĪs is well known, the runic characters of the various fuþarks each have a name, usually beginning with the same sound that they represent in writing. This post is specifically about the names of the runes.
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